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Really?
Tell me what was illegal about these regulations being repealed:
- Coal mining companies will no longer be bligated to protect the nation's streams from debris when extracting coal from mountain tops.
- Electronic cigarette makers won't have to meet the same labeling and approval processes as other tobacco providers
- Coal companies will no longer have to have sufficient funds set aside to reclaim the land (as background history - they were notorious for reorganizing and avoiding reclamation costs prior to this).
- Brokers who manage retirement accounts will no longer be required to act in their consumer's best interest rather than their own.
- Postponing (maybe repealed now) implementation of a rule that would minimize exposure of 2.3 million American workers' exposure to silica dust (a known contributor to lung cancer among other lung diseases).
- Repealing plans to streamline patient medical information into a one-page form which would make it easier for consumers to understand how to use their prescription drugs safely (as opposed to 10 pages of tiny print).
- Revoked SJ Res 34 - internet privacy rule: Trump signs internet privacy repeal "The FCC regulations would have required broadband companies to get permission from their customers in order to use their “sensitive” data — including browsing history, geolocation and financial and medical information — to create targeted advertisements."
- Ending a rule that allowed consumers to file class-action suits against financial companies.
- Blocked implementation of a rule that would have made it easier for farmers to sue big agricultural companies.
- Canceled a phaseout of the use of private prisons.
- Reversed a ban on civil forfeiture. Law enforcement officials are now once again able to seize assets from suspects who haven’t been convicted of any crime.
- Suspended a rule limiting methane leaks from drilling on federal land. Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
- Ended a study on the health effects of mountaintop-removal mining. The process involves blasting away the tops of hills and mountains to get at coal seams under the surface.
- Rescinded a rule mandating that rising sea levels be considered when building public infrastructure in flood-prone areas.
- Rescinded a limit on the number of sea animals that can be trapped or killed in fishing nets.
- Repealed 72 documents defining the rights of students with disabilities. The administration argues that this won’t affect how those students are educated.
- Canceled a partnership with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau aimed at policing student loan fraud.
- Revoked an Obama rule barring those who’d served as registered lobbyists the prior year from taking jobs with the administration.
- Scrapped an Obama-era rule requiring that airlines disclose baggage fees.
Source (amongst many): Analysis | What Trump has undone
The Clean Water Act that you reference was nothing more than a way for the epa to steal private property by declaring man made ponds as wetlands and then suing the farmers for violations of the CWA. Further the epa was fining companies millions of dollars for not using a biofuel that doesn't even exist. That is the sort of abuse that your incredibly biased sources forget to mention when they rail against what trump is doing.
A Fine for Not Using a Biofuel That Doesn’t Exist
Companies Face Fines for Not Using Unavailable Biofuel
I don't think any of that was in what I referenced....in fact I know biofuel wasn't.
That's because they won't report the entire effect of the laws. That is the point I was making. They only give you the surface reports, but ignore the actual, real effect that the laws will have.
Like which ones? Are you going to tell me all those laws were bad?
Most ot eh laws and regulations that came from the epa under the obama admin had very bad consequences for the poor and the middle class. The policy's they wanted to enact, and were enacting were raising the cost of EVERYTHING. The rich don't care, as don't the poor who get the government to take care of them, but the middle class was being screwed by those regs. Energy prices UP. Food prices UP. Fuel prices UP. Entertainment prices UP. Everything was going up at their expense.
Okay...how about telling me specifically why some of the ones I listed are bad and illegal. What you're giving me are generalities.
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